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National Poetry Month Spotlight: Nick McRae

Welcome to National Poetry Month, 2015! We’re celebrating all month long. Each day we will bring you a poem we love–a selection from one of our published or forthcoming collections. In turn, the featured poets will introduce poems they love. Happy April!

He says: I have often found myself unfairly skeptical of prose poems when I come across them. It’s something I’m working on. This poem by Carolina Ebeid, however, I fell in love with instantly. The cool clarity of the language is beautiful, undeniably poetry and undeniably suited to the unlined shape of prose. It’s just the gorgeous medicine that a repentant prose-poem naysayer like me needs knocking around in his head.

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Nick McRae is the author of Mountain Redemption (Black Lawrence Press, 2013) and The Name Museum (C&R Press, 2014). He is editor of Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets (Sundress Publications, 2013). His poems have appeared in Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Third Coast, and other journals. Nick is associate editor of 32 Poems and Robert B. Toulouse Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas.